Chapter 28 Chapter 28 Unusual sound on the balcony (Twenty-four)...

Ning Helan half-knelt down, stretched out his finger and pointed at the ground: "This... seems to be a scratch left by something..."

Fang Hui squatted down with him, and next to the faint gray mark, there were a few scratches as thick as wire.

"What about this one next to it?" Fang Hui pointed to the gray mark next to the scratch. Ning Helan looked in the direction of his finger and shook her head.

"Tsk..." Fang Hui rolled his eyes without disguising.

I thought he could see it, and I was so happy for nothing.

However, Qin Yang squatted down. He looked at the scratches carefully. They were very thin and shallow, and could not be seen in the surveillance video: "What is this?"

"Brother Yang, could this be related to the corpse that suddenly moved?"

Qin Yang nodded: "It's possible. I'll call the brothers from the identification department to take a look later."

The door of the cold storage room was broken after the collision yesterday. It can be opened without an access card.

Qin Yang stepped forward and opened the door. The cold air of the cold storage room blew out, and Fang Hui sneezed several times in a row.

The temperature in the cold storage room was below zero, and the air you exhaled was white.

The walls and floors were covered with cold metal plates, reflecting the miserable white light.

The entire cold storage room only has a ventilation duct in the top corner. The light here is dim and filled with the pungent smell of disinfectant, which makes people feel very depressed.

"Grandpa Ning, it's here." Qin Yang walked to an open freezer.

The place where the body should have been placed was empty.

"There are no signs of struggle around, which means Zhou Yong got out of the freezer by himself." Qin Yang said, "It's really weird..."

"Does this... mean that Zhou Yong is not dead?" Fang Hui said on the side.

Qin Yang sighed: "Actually, if he was not dead yet, it would be fine. But the forensic examination said that the body had been dead for several days and was completely dead, yet he was still moving."

Ning Guohua touched the cold metal freezer with a serious expression on his face: "Logically, Zhou Yong's soul is detained in the dungeon and his body has been found. His soul and body are both there, waiting for Judge Lu to try him. Why is he running out now?"

"Could it be because he didn't do anything good in his life, and if he is tried, he will be thrown into hell?" Fang Hui guessed.

"What did he do..." Ning Guohua suddenly remembered something, "Xiaoyang, you said these two Zhou Yongs were born on the same day?"

Qin Yang nodded: "Yes, the same year, the same month, the same day, the tall Zhou Yong was born at nine in the morning, and the short Zhou Yong was born at nine in the evening."

"The same hospital?"

"That's not the case."

Ning Guohua closed his eyes slightly, and pointed with his left hand, as if he was calculating something.

"But it's strange to say, these two people, with the same name, have completely different life experiences." Qin Yang suddenly said, "You can say that they are worlds apart."

It turned out that in their investigation, they found that Zhou Yong had been smooth sailing all the way, now earning a high salary and living in a large flat, and was an elite in the eyes of others.

However, Zhou Yong dropped out of school after junior high school due to family reasons and went out to work at a young age.

He struggled at the bottom of society every day, and later learned some bartending and coffee making techniques, and then temporarily settled down in a coffee shop in Tong'an City.

"Same name, different fate." Ning Helan sighed. Fang

Hui, who was standing next to him, listened thoughtfully. For him, he also had a smooth life under the protection of his family. He

has been in the best kindergarten, the best elementary school, junior high school, and high school since he was a child.

When he was taking the entrance exam for Tong'an University, he missed by a few points. Fang Hui's father donated a teaching building to the school, so Fang Hui was admitted as an exception.

"What's the matter?" Fang Hui asked. He couldn't quite understand the living standards of the bottom-class people.

"Do these two know each other?" Ning Guohua asked with his eyes wide open.

Qin Yang thought for a while: "Judging from their life trajectories, they probably don't know each other."

Ning Guohua nodded and asked, "Where is the body of the other Zhou Yong?"

"Oh, he was picked up by his family," Qin Yang said. "Originally, they were not allowed to take him away until the case was closed, but Zhou Yong's family members signed the notice of receiving the case, and they were not allowed to continue the investigation, so the case was closed because of a heart attack."

Qin Yang continued, "But the body It's all like that... We originally advised him to be cremated in the funeral home, but his parents said that he still had to be buried in his hometown. Now he should be buried in his hometown."

Ning Helan listened to the two people talking, and his eyes fell on the side of the metal freezer, where there were also those thin marks.

Reaching out and touching it, he could only feel the icy metal texture.

"Grandpa, there are traces of that here too." Ning Helan said.

Ning Guohua squinted his eyes and came forward. After taking a few glances, he said, "I'm afraid we have to go to Zhou Yong's hometown to have a look."

"Which Zhou Yong?" Qin Yang was puzzled.

"The one who went back to his hometown."

"Grandpa Ning, instead of looking for the escaped Zhou Yong, you are going to look for the one who was buried?" Qin Yang was even more confused.

Ning Guohua said with a smile: "Maybe if we go to Zhou Yong's house, we can not only see Zhou Yong, but also find Zhou Yong."

Although he didn't know what this Grandpa Ning was going to do, Qin Yang looked at the time and said: "Okay, let me drive you there. It's not far. We can get there in an hour and a half."

Ning Helan said: "Brother Yang, these traces..."

"I'll have someone check them right away." Qin Yang said, and walked out while making a phone call.

In the car, Ning Guohua suddenly asked: "Xiao Lan, do you remember when you were a child, I told you about the Demon and Ghost Record?"

"I remember some, what's wrong?" Ning Helan yawned. He was a person who would feel sleepy when he was in a car.

Of course, he could fall asleep at any time even if he wasn't in a car.

"What do you think those marks look like?" Ning Guohua was obviously referring to the marks that looked like they were scratched by a sharp object.

Ning Helan folded his hands and thought for a while: "...I don't know."

Ning Guohua sighed in frustration.

"Grandpa Ning, don't blame Xiao Lan. I also heard about the demon and ghost records you mentioned when I was a child, but it's hard to find one out of so many demons and ghosts based on those few traces." Qin Yang said.

Fang Hui thought these two brothers were really funny. How come Ning Helan, a Taoist priest, doesn't believe in ghosts and gods, but Qin Yang, a policeman, believes in them?

Ning Guohua adjusted the backrest of the seat, lay down in a comfortable position, and then said: "Indeed, there are many demons and ghosts. But few meet the requirements."

Fang Hui became curious: "Grandpa Ning, please tell me about it."

Ning Guohua told them that among so many ghosts, there is a kind of ghost called "puppet ghost."

This kind of ghost carries a long "soul-binding chain" with it, which is very thin. This is different from the ghost catcher who captures souls.

The ghost catcher captures souls and spirits to do his job and balance the three realms.

If the souls of the dead are captured, it will be fine.

But the souls captured by the puppet ghost will not only be infected with its own ghost energy, but it can also manipulate the corpse to make the corpse move freely like a living person.

Wherever the puppet ghost passes, it will leave very thin traces like wire.

"Grandpa Ning, although I believe what you said... but this is too mysterious. You just saw it. There is no such thing as the 'puppet ghost' you mentioned in the video." Qin Yang said.

"Puppet is usually combined with puppet, which is a metaphor for being manipulated by others, like a puppet." Ning Helan said, "If I can really see this puppet ghost, I really want to see it."

"Huh? But even if the puppet ghost is in front of you now, you can't see it." Fang Hui couldn't help but say.

"So, it is estimated that someone is playing tricks to do this." Ning Helan leaned his head back, "Brother Yang, you too, don't believe everything Grandpa says..."

"Hey, Xiaolan, what do you want me to believe? Take the door of the refrigerator for example, what can make it be knocked open all of a sudden?" Qin Yang said.

Ning Helan tilted his head: "The wind blew it."

"...That door is quite heavy."

"The strong wind blew it."

This completely left Qin Yang speechless. Ning Helan said again: "Brother Yang, if it was done by a ghost, can you write this in the investigation report?"

"Now it's not about writing an investigation report, it's about finding out what happened. When this matter has a result, the investigation report will naturally come out." Qin Yang said.

The two college students sitting in the back row naturally didn't understand.

But in an office of the Tong'an Public Security Bureau, a young policeman under Qin Yang suddenly sneezed. He stood up and closed the window behind him, and said in surprise. "There's no wind, why do I suddenly feel so cold?"

An hour and a half later, the car drove to a township.

This was a small rural village thirty years ago. There was nothing here except large mountains and lakes. The villagers lived on the mountains and the water.

Later, with the reform and opening up, coupled with government support, the economy developed rapidly.

The mountains and lakes in the village have not been destroyed by humans, and the natural scenery is very beautiful. Now it has become a check-in destination for many people.

Even in the dog days of summer, many people come here to escape the summer heat in the summer resort.

After asking the villagers, Qin Yang and his team quickly found Zhou Yong's home.

Zhou Yong's home is a three-story, imposing small building with a spacious courtyard outside and several cars parked at the door.

The architectural style is obviously different from other homes, and it can be seen that the family is indeed well-off.

Many people have come to Zhou Yong's home in the past few days, so the door is not closed.

Judging from the behavior of these people, they should be relatives and friends.

There is no mourning hall in the house, and relatives and friends are sitting in the lobby of the main house in groups of three or two.

Seeing four strangers coming, a woman in her sixties walked over.

Upon asking, I learned that she is Zhou Yong's aunt.

Qin Yang said they were from the police station. Aunt Zhou enthusiastically arranged for them to sit on the benches nearby and brought them a few cups of water.

The cups looked like they had just been washed, very clean, with tea leaves brewed inside, emitting bursts of fragrance.

Qin Yang gulped down the water and poured himself another cup. He had not drunk a sip of water since he received a call from the police station at six in the morning.

But Fang Hui always felt that it was unhygienic. He held the cup of water and looked at it for a long time without taking it off his lips, muttering that he might as well go buy a bottle of mineral water.

Ning Helan heard him mumbling beside her, so she said, "Do you have money to buy water now?"